The sun and moon are both wrong; who made him seek the Dharma?

Chapter 12 Debt

Now let's return to the present.

"Although I don't know what you want, we've brought the person to you."

Three-eyed looked at Xia Chuan: "Can you release Xiao Xiao?"

Xia Chuan, carrying Bai Xiaoxiao, glanced at the group of more than three hundred villagers who had been driven up the mountain and were trembling with fear.

"That depends on your performance from now on."

Having said that, he released her: "However, since you have kept your promise and come here, I will let her go."

As soon as Xia Chuan let go, the villagers of Heishan Village on the other side erupted in uproar.

"Bai Xiaoxiao!"

The village chief led the way in making things difficult, pointing at her and hurling insults.

"You wretched creature! What have you done to provoke Lord Corpse into such a fuss!"

Upon hearing this, the crowd seemed to have found an outlet for their fear of the Nirvana Corpse, and they all echoed his sentiments.

"that is!"

"You beast!"

"Hurry up and die!"

Vicious curses surged towards Bai Xiaoxiao like a tidal wave, as if she were the culprit.

"Shut up!"

Three-Eyed uttered a cold shout, and the entire audience fell silent instantly.

It walked up to Xia Chuan, its voice frank and open:

"The guy is an honest person."

Since you've kept your promise, then my life is yours.

Do as you please; if you even frown, you're not a real man.

Everyone looked astonished.

Beside Gao Haoguang, Jiang Mingzi from the same month's order was also somewhat surprised: "This Nirvana Corpse does have some backbone."

Unexpectedly, the three-eyed man knelt down without hesitation:

"But allow me to do one last thing."

After the deed is done, whether you kill me or torture me, I will have no complaints.

Gao Haoguang asked warily, "What are you going to do?"

Three-Eyed's gaze swept over the villagers, finally settling on Bai Xiaoxiao:

Let me tell you a story.

San Yan swept his gaze across the crowd, finally settling on Bai Xiaoxiao.

"Let me tell you a story."

Xia Chuan was noncommittal.

Three-Eyed stood up: "Thank you."

Where to begin?

"Let's start with my name. 'Shangshi' is a weird nickname they gave me. I call myself 'Three-Eyed'."

"We survived, or rather, we lived for over 1,600 years in a state of neither death nor life."

"Although I am petty, I consider myself to be of good character."

"I wouldn't kill someone for entertainment."

"My daily hobby is watching a sapling grow day by day."

It pointed to the blood-red eye between its eyebrows:

"This is our innate supernatural power, 'Borrowing the True Eye of Essence'."

Anyone struck by the spell cast by this eye will become our puppet, whether they live or die.

We can also lend this project to the puppet, so we can control it ourselves.

Three-Eyed continued speaking to himself, pointing to the horrifying scars on his body:

"A thousand years ago, I was severely injured by an extremely powerful seeker of the Dharma, and I have only recently recovered completely."

"We fought him to the bitter end, and he returned severely injured."

The other end of the same month.

Jiang Mingzi quietly looked at the three-eyed corpse.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the guy I just ran into.

But there's something strange about it.

"The injuries sustained while trying to escape the Pursuit of the Void Seal shouldn't have healed so quickly."

Jiang Mingzi frowned: "Unless there's some rare elixir."

But how could a seeker of the Dharma come to this desolate wilderness?

And you bestowed such a elixir?

unless.

Jiang Mingzi's expression changed as he looked at Bai Da, who was burying his companion's body after thanking him.

Could it be him?

That was a long time ago.

Three-Eyed continued.

"There was a medicine doctor named Bai Da, who was your ancestor."

He lived not far from Heishan Village, with an elderly person, a wife, a son, and a younger sister who had married into a neighboring village.

"He had a kind heart and spent half his life learning to write and study medicine, and settled down in this black mountain."

Because of his generosity and kindness, the villagers all loved and respected him.

Then one day, a strange illness struck.

Xia Chuan grinned. Sure enough, the truth was different from the version circulating among the villagers.

"The infected part of the body will gradually ulcerate and disappear."

Everyone thought it was an epidemic, but actually... it was our supernatural powers at work.

Everyone's expression changed, and they looked at the three-eyed man in disbelief.

Three-Eyed scratched his head: "After all, we can't just stop eating people; it's in our nature."

"However, unaware of this, Bai Da embarked on a journey to find herbs."

He traversed mountains and valleys, searching for every potentially effective herb, a journey that lasted for more than half a year.

"Perhaps he himself did not expect that he would actually find such a miraculous elixir."

Three-Eyed sighed: "A miraculous elixir bestowed by an immortal."

Jiang Mingzi felt a sudden sinking feeling in her heart as she listened to the same text.

Three-Eyed's deep voice echoed slowly: "He returned with immense excitement."

"But all I saw were my mother, wife, and son hanging in a row in front of the house."

挂？

This strange verb made Gao Haoguang's expression change.

Three-Eyed sighed, "My mother gouged out her eyes, my wife lost all her internal organs, and my son lost his hands and feet."

"The whole family hung neatly in front of their house, welcoming Bai Da back."

"No! That's not how it is!"

Some villagers protested in alarm, "That's not what's written in our family records..."

The three-eyed man sneered, "Your ancestors, huh?"

"Because Bai Da drank his own well water, we didn't poison him."

"So they were jealous that no one in their family had contracted the disease."

"While Bai Da was out, I killed his entire family, cut off my missing body parts, and boiled them into soup."

Self-identification:

"You are what you eat."

Bai Xiaoxiao felt a chill run through her body.

She couldn't help but recall what the villagers had said.

"Your ancestors owe us a debt of lives!"

debt?

What do I owe you?

Who owes whom?

Anger was ignited completely in her empty chest.

"Don't rush, there's one last part."

Three-eyed looked at her and said, "Having learned the whole story, Bai Da took a scythe and wanted revenge."

"But what can a mere mortal do for so many people?"

"Naturally, all his efforts resulted in a near-fatal injury."

"Hate drove him to escape, and he survived for several days despite his severe injuries, eventually reaching the deep mountains."

"They heard my call and then found me, who had recovered from serious injuries."

On the other end of the same month, Jiang Mingzi closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

"Just as I thought."

The story of the three-eyed man continues:

"In order to seek revenge, Bai Da gave us the miraculous medicine he had finally found, hoping that we would avenge him."

"We had just agreed when our benefactor died."

"And we always repay our debts."

He looked at everyone and smiled slightly: "Having taken the benefactor's pill, we naturally have to help the benefactor avert disaster."

"So I manipulated the corpse of my benefactor and used it to kill your ancestors."

"I ate them all."

Gao Haoguang muttered to himself, "That's why it turned into blood..."

"Afterwards, we will give Bai a proper burial."

Three-Eyed sighed and looked at Bai Xiaoxiao.

"Unexpectedly, the branch of my benefactor's surviving sister later moved back to Heishan Village."

"We have always intentionally avoided acknowledging our benefactor's bloodline."

But fate is cruel; we only found out about this recently after we ate your mother.

After hearing the story of the three-eyed man, the villagers were incredulous.

"How could this be...?"

"Impossible, how could Bai Da be a good person?"

Three-Eyed ignored the villagers and squatted down to look at Bai Xiaoxiao:

"The descendants of our benefactor."

"Do you want revenge?"

"Just say the word, and we'll do it."

It puffed out its chest with considerable pride: "Because our motto is, we must pay our debts!"

Bai Xiaoxiao stood frozen in place, looking at the group of terrified villagers.

The village chief trembled all over and knelt down with a thud:

"Xiaoxiao, don't be impulsive! There must be some misunderstanding!"

As soon as he took the lead, the villagers behind him seemed to wake from a dream and knelt down in unison.

"We had no choice in the matter!"

"We just want to survive. I have a wife, children, and elderly parents to support..."

The sounds of everyone begging for mercy echoed through the bamboo forest.

Bai Xiaoxiao coldly watched their ugly struggles without saying a word.

After a long while, and until everyone was hoarse from shouting, she still did not answer.

The village chief breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems we've made it through this ordeal.

After all, she's just a little girl, soft-hearted, how could she really be so cruel?

He cautiously raised his head, only to suddenly meet Bai Xiaoxiao's eyes, which had turned crimson at some point.

Immediately afterwards, a word that made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave crashed clearly into the dead silence of the forest.

"think!"

Bai Xiaoxiao stared intently at this group of beasts in human skin, a chilling rage boiling in her blood.

She's going to kill them.

Leave no one alive!